pensioners average income vs working age family income

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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,499
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    Not sure I want my care in old age to be dependent on what my council can afford.

    Long term, would improved maternity/paternity leave and education be a wise investment?

    Given the current news, that would seem to amount to 2/5ths of **** all. Didn't quite follow your second point.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • blueturtle
    blueturtle Posts: 33
    All this talk about the cost of care in your old age makes one realize the pressure that that people would be under if ever euthanasia became lawful.
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    blueturtle wrote:
    All this talk about the cost of care in your old age makes one realize the pressure that that people would be under if ever euthanasia became lawful.

    Think of it the other way. If Daddy had a humongous pension his loving relatives could keep him alive on a ventilator to keep the cheques rolling in
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,094
    rjsterry wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    Not sure I want my care in old age to be dependent on what my council can afford.

    Long term, would improved maternity/paternity leave and education be a wise investment?

    Given the current news, that would seem to amount to 2/5ths of **** all. Didn't quite follow your second point.

    Encouraging more people to be able to have the joy of hearing the pitter patter of tiny feet of future economically active units.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,499
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    Not sure I want my care in old age to be dependent on what my council can afford.

    Long term, would improved maternity/paternity leave and education be a wise investment?

    Given the current news, that would seem to amount to 2/5ths of **** all. Didn't quite follow your second point.

    Encouraging more people to be able to have the joy of hearing the pitter patter of tiny feet of future economically active units.

    Ah, I see.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    Not sure I want my care in old age to be dependent on what my council can afford.

    Long term, would improved maternity/paternity leave and education be a wise investment?

    Given the current news, that would seem to amount to 2/5ths of **** all. Didn't quite follow your second point.

    Encouraging more people to be able to have the joy of hearing the pitter patter of tiny feet of future economically active units.

    That's not cheap too. 15 years of education!

    Just bring in all the already educated immigrants, no?

    :twisted:
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    Not sure I want my care in old age to be dependent on what my council can afford.

    Long term, would improved maternity/paternity leave and education be a wise investment?

    Given the current news, that would seem to amount to 2/5ths of **** all. Didn't quite follow your second point.

    Encouraging more people to be able to have the joy of hearing the pitter patter of tiny feet of future economically active units.

    That's not cheap too. 15 years of education!

    Just bring in all the already educated immigrants, no?

    :twisted:

    and very likely to leave before they become old and sick.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,499
    Was reading something about cliodynamics this morning - partly about mathematical modelling of political shifts against changes in demographics. It would seem to be quite relevant to this discussion and possibly the EU and Trump threads.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    rjsterry wrote:
    Was reading something about cliodynamics this morning - partly about mathematical modelling of political shifts against changes in demographics. It would seem to be quite relevant to this discussion and possibly the EU and Trump threads.

    Any chance you could summarise?
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Isnt that what actuaries do?
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,314
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    Not sure I want my care in old age to be dependent on what my council can afford.

    Long term, would improved maternity/paternity leave and education be a wise investment?

    Given the current news, that would seem to amount to 2/5ths of **** all. Didn't quite follow your second point.

    Encouraging more people to be able to have the joy of hearing the pitter patter of tiny feet of future economically active units.

    That's not cheap too. 15 years of education!

    Just bring in all the already educated immigrants, no?

    :twisted:
    As opposed to the uneducated ones? We'll make a Tory of you yet :wink:
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,499
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    Was reading something about cliodynamics this morning - partly about mathematical modelling of political shifts against changes in demographics. It would seem to be quite relevant to this discussion and possibly the EU and Trump threads.

    Any chance you could summarise?
    Err... Only just discovered it, so don't really feel qualified to talk about it in any depth. Roughly speaking, the occurrence of social phenomena is not random, but can be modelled mathematically.The bit I was reading (or listening to) was talking about how growing inequality leads to 'oversupply' of wealthy elites. With there only being a certain number of actual positions of power, those who have the money but not the position tend to try and buy influence by other means eg. Arron Banks.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    Not sure I want my care in old age to be dependent on what my council can afford.

    Long term, would improved maternity/paternity leave and education be a wise investment?

    Given the current news, that would seem to amount to 2/5ths of **** all. Didn't quite follow your second point.

    Encouraging more people to be able to have the joy of hearing the pitter patter of tiny feet of future economically active units.

    That's not cheap too. 15 years of education!

    Just bring in all the already educated immigrants, no?

    :twisted:
    As opposed to the uneducated ones? We'll make a Tory of you yet :wink:

    Depends if you're referring to school as education or not :P
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